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  • He marries the infamous Jezebel, and built a Temple to the Canaanite deity Baal, popularizing this form of idolatry among the Jewish people.
  • But they - like the infamous somnolent dogs of Bucharest streets, like the drab, grey concrete blocks in the suburbs - are not what Romania's future is about.
  • Isn't there something revolting about catering to the imagined needs of a tiny group of spoiled ladies, a Marie Antoinette–ish situation that reached its apotheosis when John Galliano showed his infamous clochard collection—the word means bum or hobo in French, and the tattered gowns, hand-stenciled to look filthy, trailed pots, pans, and other refuse—at the 1997 Dior haute couture show? Art in the Parks 3: Nan Kempner's Clothing
  • Bush didn't use this power because he had no interest in impeding the BPP, which was infamous for rubber-stamping executions. The Texas Clemency Memos
  • As you float over this ledge watch for the infamous Crown of Thorns Sea Star.
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  • Serena, in particular, has caused a stir with her black studded tennis ensembles, the black Shox Boots from her Nike collection and the infamous black cat suit that was roundly deemed bootylicious.
  • While the far west may have the more vicious winter temperatures, often subceeding minus 40 degrees C, the northeast is infamous for its radically changeable winter atmospherics.
  • A scientist who discovered that by holding down the shift key on your PC can bypass the copyright protection on music CDs has been threatened with legal action under America's infamous Millennium Act.
  • At least I still remember how to make my grandmother's infamous "sweetish" meatballs. Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories
  • At 27, he's already a giant among local comic artists - and not just because of his large frame and infamously squeaky voice.
  • Enter James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's infamous real-life mole-hunter. Books: Life In The Spy Business
  • He is infamous throughout the village for his bitter temperament and quickness to anger.
  • In her current show, "Everything that Ever Existed Still Exists," Bird delicately -- even preciously -- petrifies images of infamous nuclear explosions in paint. Kimberly Brooks: Rebecca Bird Paints the Explosion
  • The infamous photo of Dave posing alongside his posho chums from the Bullingdon Club in an expensive royal blue tailcoat is one of the few clues we have. Birthday Boy
  • Combine this with the effort by South Carolina Republicans to tar the state's Democratic gubernatorial nominee Vincent Sheheen with now-infamous accidental candidate Alvin Greene and I think you're seeing conservatives get revenge for a year of being painted as allies of "birtherism" and conspiracies about the president. Embracing the crazy
  • Venomous fish should not be confused with poisonous species, such as the infamous puffer fish, which harbor colonies of toxin-producing bacteria.
  • The International Republican Institute, which received $248 million in total between 2004 and 2009 to support governance, political participation and civil society programs in Iraq, made questionable decisions -- such as overpaying for security services from Blackwater, the infamous military contractor, and spending $690,000 on vehicles without approval from the government -- according to a new audit by the Special Inspector General for Iraqi Reconstruction (SIGIR). International Republican Institute's Use Of U.S. Grants Criticized By Watchdog
  • I've always said that he was either going to be famous for something or infamous for something.
  • This week's pompous, poncey, high-handed antics could pique the infamous Tauran temper, impelling you to channel that feisty, fiery Hawaiian volcano deity Pele, who loves to erupt in Vesuvian pyrotechnics.
  • One, several people mention that Paul Martin slashed funding to Health Canada, resulting in the current, infamous long waiting times. More answers
  • Phobias fall under the category of anxiety disorders and describe pathological fears; while many know the term from the infamous expression "arachnophobia" pathological fear of spiders, many different types of phobias have been observed in patients. Jalees Rehman, M.D.: 'Islamophobia' Is Not A Phobia
  • Mention Saratoga Springs and its infamous race track is sure to come up. Maria Russo: Saratoga Springs: Mineral Baths, Museums And Homemade Potato Chips
  • Mother was referring to the infamous story of Helen Potter, daughter of a multimillionaire beer and wine distributor in Hyannis Port who, after she had been engaged to the son of a wealthy Boston builder, was discovered naked in bed with her closest girlfriend. Olivia
  • When he finally got the chance to play in the starting eleven after David Beckham's infamous booking and injury, Owen found the back of the net in the Champions' League tie with Dynamo Kiev.
  • I've kind of become a little infamous for working on music in my garden shed too. The Sun
  • If you like Mexican food, including nachos, tacos and chili con Larry (created after an infamous trip to Santiago), this is certainly the venue to head to.
  • The result was the hated gabelle, the infamous salt tax that became a major source of revenue for the old regime in France, and a leading cause of revolution in 1789.4 Champlain's Dream
  • This good fortune is attributed to the owner, Mrs. Viola Vickham, an avowed Francophobe who refused to buy or serve any French imports, including the infamous "adverse cam(em)ber(t). Archive 2006-08-01
  • Made famous, or rather infamous, by Shakespeare, Richard is put ‘on trial’ for murdering two of his nephews.
  • Citrus leaves can be used in stews, soups and curry dishes – and the particularly infamous for that are the Kaffir lime leaves, often used in Thai curries and soups. Archive 2007-05-01
  • As you are undoubtedly aware, the sad old electrical engineering model was deliberately crippled by Lorentz (who deliberately symmetrized Heaviside's original equations at the instigation of the infamous J.P. Morgan) in 1892, prior to the very birth of electrical engineering itself. ZPEnergy.com
  • Those infamous English will not permit us to proceed far enough from our native land to acquire what they call the legs of the sea. Springhaven
  • This is an excerpt from the dinner conversation with the infamous 'fake sheikh '. Times, Sunday Times
  • But, however we may now regard it, it was in perfect accordance with the trickish spirit of the age; and the French king resigned all right of rebuking his antagonist on this score, when he condescended to become a party with him to the infamous partition treaty, and still more when he so grossly violated it. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3
  • In addition to the 2008 model line there will be some very special bikes in the Ducati performance display: an accessorized Desmosedici RR; the infamous Martini 1098 S; and a Monster 696 featuring custom "sharpie" graphics by Roland Sands Design. Roadracingworld.com
  • the infamous Benedict Arnold
  • Venomous fish should not be confused with poisonous species, such as the infamous puffer fish, which harbor colonies of toxin-producing bacteria.
  • They were infamous rumour mongers because they overheard a lot of idle chatter at the latrines.
  • The infamous Patterson-Gimlin bigfoot film has been stabilized frame-by-frame to give you a better view of the lumbering woodland beast. Bigfoot Film, Frame-by-Frame | Disinformation
  • Impossible to describe without using the word lurid, Leave Her to Heaven features more perverse activity than any number of more celebrated cult faves-including Nicholas Ray's infamous Joan Crawford western New York Press
  • A resident of Brewery Gulch, the infamous canyon furrowing north from downtown, decided to spray a beehive wedged in an old brick warehouse.
  • Following to the recent bugging of the DP offices, our daring team of investigative reporters bugged the DP offices, to see what was on the infamous tapes.
  • I was so excited to be at the heartland of hippie that I initially looked at things through rose-coloured specs, almost imagining myself back in the era of the the Free Store run by counter-culture heroes the Diggers and the infamous Drog Store Cafe. Insider's guide to musical pilgrimages: Country, soul, blues, folk, world music
  • This ravishing city, seductively perfumed with orange blossom, is every bit as alluring as Spain's most infamous femme fatale.
  • Even the already infamous trip to Cuba in the movie's final third works in the sense that it's incredibly moving, tapping as it does into the mess of feelings and regret surrounding 9/11 and the perpetually denied dream of universal siblinghood. Gerry Canavan
  • This picture is lewdly anti-authority and rightly infamous for giving its characters the kind of potty-mouths that Navy men are supposed to have. Top 10 Military Comedies » Scene-Stealers
  • Most of the major varieties are illustrated as well as some of their companions - the infamous bubble dome stereos, spherical speakers and round, hanging televisions.
  • Hafner and Ardea have laid bare two detestable souls, the one of an infamous usurer, half German, half Dutch; the other of a degraded nobleman, in whom is revived some ancient 'condottiere'. The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • Only yourself, and Abraham Chaumieux, the vinegar merchant and crucified convulsionary, could be capable of broaching so infamous A Philosophical Dictionary
  • The Calgary restaurant wine scene has come a long way since a barrage of steak houses pushed gallons of cheap plonk down our throats via the infamous half-litre carafe.
  • Let us now praise infamous men. Times, Sunday Times
  • Infamous for it's explicit rape scene and bloody violence which got it put on the UK's "Video Nasties" list, Karl Howman ("Jacko" of Brush Strokes fame) and director/stunt double Vic Armstrong play the rapists (so most of their big scene has ended up in the BBFC's personal viewing drawer). Exposé aka Trauma aka The House On Straw Hill
  • My ancestors employed the most infamous of techniques - the eyelash in the eye, the one congested nostril, and, of course, the itch on the back that couldn't be reached without an implement.
  • Dean wasn't just whistling Dixie when he made his infamous remark about reaching out to bubbas bearing Confederate flags.
  • The bad news is that Gowdy is a rock-ribbed conservative from the home state of infamous District overlord Rep. John L. McMillan D. DeMorning DeBonis: Jan. 18, 2011
  • Let me ask you about the most famous, or infamous, use of explosives, of course, that plane that went down.
  • This comedy with its now infamous apple pie scene has spawned a number of sequels. The Sun
  • Her eyes narrowed into her infamous glare, and the woman was riled enough to fight back.
  • There is in infamous moment in the writing lives of Annie, Paul and I where we can pinpoint the moment a character chose how his story would be told. Crossing Over: Characters Choosing Writers « Write Anything
  • The first comer is a wretch, Femme — woman — rhymes with infame, — infamous. Les Miserables
  • The new film deals with the infamous Borgia family which produced no less than two saintly Popes in Italy during the 14th and 15th century.
  • The passing of time has enshrined Keegan's infamous combustion on live TV as the pivotal moment in the 1995-1996 title race.
  • However, the lavatory issue had already raised its ugly head when an acclimatisation trip to South America culminated in the infamous Bogotá bidet incident in which England's captain, Bobby Moore, was accused of leaving something unseemly in the "footbath" at the Hotel Tequendama. All cisterns must be go for England's team at Euro 2012 | Harry Pearson
  • Rumours are abound that former contestants will be returning to the house that made them infamous. Times, Sunday Times
  • Two weeks ago he was again celebrated when the infamous Luas Bridge in Dundrum was named after the engineer but this time he was a Carlow man!
  • After a short but rather storied history, infamous PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George "GeoHot" Hotz and Sony Computer Entertainment of America have settled their legal dispute, with a statement on the PlayStation Blog stating the two parties "reached an agreement in principle" around 10 days ago. Sony Settles With Playstation 3 Hacker George Hotz
  • The slim brown door echoes the ranting dictator's infamous toothbrush moustache. The Sun
  • The single most destructive insect pest for Eastern growers - the infamous plum curculio - is unknown in the West.
  • Well, the 52-year-old is of course known for more than just insulting Jews; but since he hasn't acted on screen since M. Night Shyamalan's Signs in 2002 and infamously declared in 2006, "Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world" whilst getting arrested for drunk driving, I can't help but have that as my free-associate for the seasoned Aussie. Mel Gibson Acting Again in Edge of Darkness « FirstShowing.net
  • The man with the most infamous perm in Scottish football history proved that a goalkeeper from an unfashionable club can step up and do a job for Scotland.
  • The infamous London smog is an example of extreme air pollution.
  • Margaret starts out as a many pleasing girl in France as good as ends up as a scolding, infamous aged hag; is which a story, or is it unequivocally dual plays? Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
  • From whom should this visit be, but from Sally Martin, accompanied by Mrs. Carter, the sister of the infamous Sinclair! the same, I suppose I need not tell you, who keeps the bagnio near Clarissa Harlowe
  • In the infamous Hayes-Tilden election, no one dreamed of taking the contest to the court as a neutral forum.
  • And two decades later, he re-visits the underarm delivery and provides a fascinating insight into why he asked his younger brother Trevor to bowl that infamous delivery.
  • I have been famous and infamous. The Sun
  • It's infamous for looking like a cross between a ‘Les Paul’ but with a headstock similar to a Strat.
  • When the infamous White House gate-crasher floated the notion of running for D.C. mayor, we basically blew it off. No joke, third White House crasher Carlos Allen is actually running for mayor
  • Whatever the refurbishment cost the building cannot, must not, become another infamous centre of dereliction.
  • Amalia Dayan with Daniella Luxembourg at their gallery After disappearing from the public eye for nearly 19 years, Jeff Koons's infamous "Made in Heaven" paintings with his then wife, adult film star Ilona Staller, returned to New York this week. 'Made in Heaven' Paintings Return
  • He was the manifest ruffian, wencher, whoremonger, and most infamous cuckold-maker that ever breathed.
  • It tells the story of a 1946 escape attempt from that most infamous of prisons, Alcatraz.
  • Most recent examples include (a) Karl Rove's involvement with Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi, who along with his political partners, the "post-fascist" National Alliance, are pushing to rehabilitate the image of the Repubblichini and Mussolini fascism, just as the Republicans are doing in the U.S. with the followers of McVeigh and mobs at the Town Hall meetings, and (b) key Rove and Bush adviser, infamous neo-con, and Republican "intellectual" guru Michael Ledeen. Ronald B. Robinson: Democrat Calls Republicans "Knuckle Dragging Neanderthals." Is Berlusconi One Too? You Bet!
  • They won't necessarily want to bring a T-shirt home from the Cape Flats, but Denis and his partner should visit Cape Town's infamous shanty town if they want to see what the city's really about.
  • And some who do (e.g. the infamous Krauthammer) pride themselves on leaving their formal training behind to engage in spouting pure propaganda. Matthew Yglesias » The Inconveniently Boring Truth
  • He's also writing lots of magazine articles, updating his website, publishing every issue of The Realist online and, in his spare time, maintaining what he calls his "cottage industry"-- peddling a digitally colored edition of the infamous "Disneyland Memorial Orgy" parody, created by Mad magazine artist Wally Wood and first published in 1967 as a centerspread in The Realist. Michael Sigman: Satirist Paul Krassner Turning 80, Going Strong
  • Laguna Beach’s most infamous bad boy got yet another set of matching silver bracelets slapped on his wrists a few days ago, this time for trespassing and assault.
  • Infamous security breacher John Hirst aka Jail House points to an excitable Independent scoop with an illegitimate Tory fundraiser getting the run of the corridors of power. Houses of Parliament: Tory Bloggers Making Passes
  • The Abbe Gregoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Gregoire. Les Miserables, Volume I, Fantine
  • He had survived the infamous ordeal on the raft and had privileged information to impart. Times, Sunday Times
  • Reflecting on his now infamous appearance before the UN Security Council in 2003, former Secretary of State Colin Powell has referred to his act of WMD drumbeating at the time as a "blot" on his long record of government service. Kevin Sullivan: Iran and the Imminent Threat Fallacy
  • However, it is those same traits that have made her famous and infamous in equal measure.
  • What are the his employment policies in an infamously pinchpenny and corner-cutting sector of the health industry?
  • There is virtually no rain, and little chance of khamsins, the infamous desert sandstorms that begin in mid - to late March and coat the Nile, its shores and inhabitants with layers of sticky sand.
  • The Center of the World, already infamous for its racy subject matter, was released unrated in the United States to avoid the NC - 17 kiss of death.
  • Reflecting on his now infamous appearance before the UN Security Council in 2003, former Secretary of State Colin Powell has referred to his act of WMD drumbeating at the time as a "blot" on his long ... Kevin Sullivan: Iran and the Imminent Threat Fallacy
  • This period has become infamous for its dreadful architecture, its love of the car and its brutal town planning. Times, Sunday Times
  • Skip is quick to dismiss rumours of an ongoing feud between the actor and his daughter, following Baldwin's infamous 2007 answer machine message in which he called the youngster "a thoughtless little pig. Ireland.com Breaking News
  • Other recent infamous victims of superlarge lip engorgement -- Nicole Kidman, Christina Aguilera, Meg Ryan, Melanie Griffith, Priscilla Presley and Lisa Rinna, who have given up their naturally attractive kissers, in exchange for lips that are seen in nature only on underwater species. Bonnie Fuller: Oh No! Now Hollywood Lips Explode in Size
  • Of course there are far more famous or rather infamous figures in the history of the last two centuries.
  • Most synics would say the Gold Coast is the worst possible destination for a player that was charged for the infamous "glassing" incident. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • The acetate record, a type made directly from a master tape, was cut in 1974 during Lennon's infamous ‘lost weekend’, when he was estranged from Yoko Ono.
  • There is a big difference between being famous and being infamous. The Sun
  • But the Dean, though he calls Catiline infamous, and acknowledges the conspiracy, never - theless give us ample proof of his sympathy with the conspirators, or rather of his strong feeling against Cicero. The Life of Cicero
  • Not necessarily as instantly watchable as the now-infamous ‘Wife Swap’, but still in a similar vein of fish-out-of-water scenarios.
  • Fortunately, while driving home after picking up her children at school, Kristin spotted us parked at the side of a country road (trying to interpret that infamous map!) and led us the rest of the way, getting there just a few minutes before your arrival. S'egarer - French Word-A-Day
  • I got unprecedented access to the headquarters of the infamous Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB, and in Leningrad I had an exclusive interview with Dr. Svyatoslav Fyodorov, the ophthalmologist who developed the revolutionary vision correction procedure known as radial keratotomy. Make Your Life Prime Time
  • Indian, not of Yncarial blood, angrily addressed the term pederast to another, he was held infamous for many days. Arabian nights. English
  • The infamous shower scene has lost none of its power. The Sun
  • July 3rd, 2009 9: 29 pm ET hey, the liberals are now in complete contol now. lets step aside and let them show us howits done. liberals are infamous for blaming everthing on others, it is time to STEP BACK AND LET THEM DO WHAT THEY WANT. Hillary Clinton 'elbowed' aside?
  • The great "lion" of this district was the famous and extraordinary Fonthill Abbey, an amazing erection in sham Gothic, built by Wyatt, that "infamous dispoiler, misnamed architect" to the order of the eccentric author of Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
  • He says: 'Being infamous and famous is a difficult thing. Times, Sunday Times
  • As he retired, bursting with ineffectual indignation, Esdale was the first person whom Hartley chanced to meet with, and to him, stung with impatience, he communicated what he termed the infamous conduct of the The Surgeon's Daughter
  • Former Governor Eliot Spitzer is saying the problem there is not just with bonuses by billions from government bailouts going to "counterparties" -- companies that did business with the infamous insurer which just changed its name. Danny Schechter: NEEDED: BLUE RIBBON FINANCIAL CRIMES PROBE
  • A special cold case squad will reinvestigate some of the infamous Atlanta child murders.
  • Thus a falling dollar is likely to increase the dollar amount of our imports (the infamous J-curve), and force the bulk of the adjustment to currency moves into the "income effect" that results from our higher bills (witness the impact of higher oil prices on the U.S. consumer). The Dollar and the Market Mess
  • The single most destructive insect pest for Eastern growers - the infamous plum curculio - is unknown in the West.
  • This has become one of my most famous - or infamous - dishes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Infamously, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra do not broadcast on Radio Scotland.
  • We studiously avoided that tone of spoiled and bored querulousness for which colonials were infamous.
  • The first obstacle was the infamous Northam Weir transpiring 500m from the start, forcing participants to carry or portage their craft.
  • Ok, I know I'm probably digging too much into this, but given Disney's infamous past, does anyone else think that those helicopters look like giant dicks from the front? Watch 4 Minutes of the Opening of Bolt | /Film
  • The play is set mainly a convent laundry in rural Ireland in 1963 and it was inspired by the now infamous practice of making pregnant and unwed Irish mothers work as penitents in church-run laundries, known as Magdalene Laundries.
  • And to add insult to injury , MercuryRet - rograde, an astral condition infamous for frustration - n, exacerbate - s existing tensions.
  • The pope is in Bosnia celebrating mass in Banja Luka, which is in the Serbian dominated republic within Bosnia, on the site of a infamous World War II massacre, in which some 2700 Serbs, including about 500 children, were killed by Croatian fascists. CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2003
  • Mr. Sarkozy's proposal, far from being a break with France's recent past, is a continuation of government attempts to improve the lot of workers by punishing business owners, an impulse embodied most infamously by the 35-hour workweek law passed by the administration of Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. Sarkozy's War on Profit
  • This was a work, infamous in its time, of the most depraved and retrograde Jesuitism, which purported to find a grand conspiracy of Freemasons and other subversives in the overthrow of the Bourbons. Reactionary Prophet
  • Once society felt certain of the difference between the famous and the infamous.
  • Hebert conceived the infamous idea of wringing from this boy revelations to criminate his unhappy mother. The Trial Of Marie-Antoinette 14 Oct. 1793
  • And the infamous scene in the gym could not have happened at our school. Times, Sunday Times
  • More than half a century after the fall of Nazi Germany, it is still impossible to discuss the German word heil without immediately conjuring up thoughts of the infamous Notes on 'Essay Title'
  • In the minds of many people, Judas Iscariot is one of the most wickedly infamous men of Bible History.
  • But we lost and it has become infamous. The Sun
  • It's a climb infamous for benighting parties who underestimate the route or get hounded by bad weather. From Gym Rat to Alpinist: Liz's Scary Final Exam
  • Boomtown Houston of the past was infamous for brawling and duelling.
  • A proud, dark, ambitious man; a caballer against the state; infamous for his avarice and severity; a bad son, a bad brother, unkind and ungenerous to all his relatives — Isabel, I would die rather than have him.” The Black Dwarf
  • What is worse, her captor is the infamous Beauceron. :Acquired Taste
  • Along with the infamous Mont Ventoux, the climbs on the route today are the most feared monsters in France.
  • This comedy with its now infamous apple pie scene has spawned a number of sequels. The Sun
  • If you like Mexican food, including nachos, tacos and chili con Larry (created after an infamous trip to Santiago), this is certainly the venue to head to.
  • Some-one please bridle this infamous brute, before it is too late!
  • So do I, base, unworthy creature! the disgrace of a good family, and the property of an infamous rake, as questionless you will soon find yourself, if you are not already. Clarissa Harlowe
  • Famous and infamous incidents in the world of sports will be related to the child.
  • SHERIFF JOE ATOP ARIZONA POLL OF GOP SENATE CANDIDATES - Infamous Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- who views living, breathing human beings trying to make a better life for themselves in the U.S. with the same level of compassion that we view gastroenteritis, traffic jams or unchecked bacne -- actually has a shot at being Arizona's next senator. HUFFPOST HILL - Rep. Jean Schmidt Under Investigation
  • When the bell rang signaling the start of their one-hour of free time, a large flock of girls gathered around Millie to hear one of her infamous stories, or uproarious jokes.
  • I ask Andy to talk me through some of his infamous escapades.
  • The recent spate of showbiz deaths only points to the fact that life, no matter how opulent or in debt, no matter how famous, infamous or unobserved is short and not always sweet. Steven Weber: Pop Goes the King
  • Two particular confabs afforded the group another shot at Amy's distaste of big-bosomed female superheroes, along with two new versions of Sheldon's infamous "Penny" knock. Tribal Chants, Dirty Twister and More Secrets From the Set of The Big Bang Theory
  • This comedy with its now infamous apple pie scene has spawned a number of sequels. The Sun
  • In 1977, infamously, he was dunted from behind by a police horse called Adjutant, a slice of film we obviously had to use.
  • When Mr. Lilin stops by the house of one particularly infamous criminal, for instance, he credulously reports that the man has killed 12,000 policemen over the course of his career. Here Come the Cops—Steppe on It
  • In 1988, Brown, a former Bob Dole staffer, had grievously wounded Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis with the infamous Willie Horton commercial, which (unfairly) portrayed Dukakis as the kind of softie liberal who would set murderers free so they could kill again. The Secret War
  • She has a beautiful white hand, but her handwriting is infamous; she writes fast and her chirography is of the door-plate order — her letters are immense. Mark Twain: A Biography
  • How well I remember New York delicatessens, having grown up in that city made famous and infamous by recent events.
  • A truly democratic medium, the radio is accessible to everybody, and as a result the famous and infamous, the royalty and commoners, all tune in and talk to each other.
  • This was an allusion to the most infamous murder committed by the two anti-heroines of the book as they are on the run through France.
  • Meanwhile, his name waxed famous — or rather infamous, and many of those who resorted to him did so under persuasion that he was a sorcerer. Kenilworth
  • It is not often that you wake up to find yourself infamous. Times, Sunday Times
  • King said he'd "scoured" Rush Limbaugh's infamous comment that the media was giving Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb too much credit because he was black and found no racism in it whatsoever - Limbaugh, said King, was calling out the media for reverse racism. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • Prynne had his nose slit, and his ears cut off, for speaking and writing his mind; but it must not be forgotten, that he lived to see the _tyrant's head struck off_, and the _infamous judge_ who passed the _cruel sentence_ upon him, brought to Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1
  • The infamous conflict over liberation theology during the 1980s is harder to assess. The Times Literary Supplement
  • But the majority of the Chinese artists who are squabbled over by blue chip dealers and by museums eager to feature them in prestigious one-person shows have one thing in common: The political and economic history between Mao's infamous cultural revolution and present-day China's overeager capitalism provides a recurrent touchstone in their art's imagery. Robert Ayers: Wang Huaiqing's Chinese Art in Seattle
  • As successful as they were at the box office (which isn't hard to achieve when it comes to summer audiences and their infamously short attention span ...) "Transformers 2", "Star Trek" and a host of other summer films were simply redressed rehashes (with the exception of "District 9", which was great, in my humble opinion). AVATAR Zooms Past $800 Million Worldwide on Its Way to $1 Billion – Collider.com
  • Winds just as strong rage from the Gulf of Alaska, infamous for terrible storms that drop several hundred inches of rain and snow annually.
  • One contemporary version of Henry's complaint was: ‘I have nourished and promoted in my realm sluggish and wretched knaves who are faithless to their lord and suffer him to be tricked thus infamously by a low clerk.’
  • He had survived the infamous ordeal on the raft and had privileged information to impart. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her eyes narrowed into her infamous glare, and the woman was riled enough to fight back.
  • The only way through this barrier was an infamous pass known as the Cilician Gates, a narrow defile barely wide enough for a handful of men to march side by side. Alexander the Great
  • Last month, it was revealed that he was selling a Playboy stationery range targeted at children, featuring the infamous bunny girl logo of the adult magazine.
  • Those infamous words were inscribed on the War Room walls.
  • In other words, we have an exemplary instance of McCarthyites gulling the naive, just as the infamous senator from Wisconsin liked to do. About This Site
  • Known for its paella and fish dishes, it has been a draw for the famous and infamous for decades. Times, Sunday Times
  • She has difficulty believing the rumours of her husband's acquaintance with the infamous Mrs. Erlynne, but yields to the rumours anyways in hope of finding true love.
  • Profilers have been delighted to discover her colourful past, and in particular her infamous debut novel Elite, in which the heroine is a leggy redhead who becomes Secretary of State for Scotland.
  • Of all traitors they are the most aggravatedly criminal; of all villains, they are the most infamous and detestable. History of the United States
  • Greenwald seems to be wrong about enforcing blockades in international waters, but if “piracy is by definition undertaken by non-state actors,” what are we to make of the infamous Barbary pirates, and the tribute payments made to and wars fought with the Barbary States? The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenwald and Gaza
  • When being questioned in the inquest to this last incident, he is said to have given what I consider to be his most infamous saying yet.
  • He began in the multiuser domains because of the killer's apparent motivation -- playing a Real World version of the infamous Access game. Forgetfulness
  • How coincidental that the Tate imbroglio should have taken place barely more than a month after the brouhaha stirred by the Yale University Press's bowdlerization of Jytte Klausen's book, "The Cartoons That Shook The World," to be published in November, after having excised the now infamous Danish cartoons as well as Gustave Dore's illustration of Mohammed for Canto 28 of Dante's "Inferno. Raymond J. Learsy: "Spiritual America": Censorship at Yale, and Now London?
  • I work in Hammersmith, actually I jobshare with Paul Dadge of the infamous picture with the girl in the burns mask fame. On November 1st
  • Then again, you could always remember her for her infamous temporary insanity and overactive imagination.
  • The funereal pace of my own texting is infamous. Times, Sunday Times
  • When the empire collapsed, hordes of barbarian armies, including the infamous Vandal pirates, invaded Italy throughout the fifth century AD.
  • She was hardly ever photographed without a drink in her hand, and her benders were infamous.
  • Enjoy a free steak or rissole sandwich then stay around for street entertainment and the infamous Cow Pat Lot plus a Milking Competition open to experienced and novice milkers.
  • Thus a falling dollar is likely to increase the dollar amount of U.S. imports (the infamous J-curve), and force the bulk of the adjustment to currency moves into the "income effect" that results from higher bills (witness the impact of higher oil prices on the U.S. consumer). The Dollar and the Market Mess
  • A glittering tribute to Michael Jackson will have you swaying your neck to the beat of "Thriller," while the costume exhibit will lure you to long flowing gowns, sweat-stained debonair ensembles, crystal-encrusted bodices such as the one worn in Swan Lake and even M.C. Hammer's infamous harem pants. Maria Russo: Saratoga Springs: Mineral Baths, Museums And Homemade Potato Chips
  • Faced with an audience of hypercritical opera fans, Fillion's infamous set of planks known as "the monster" has drawn plenty of criticism. George Heymont: Totem -- An Artistic Triumph for Cirque du Soleil
  • Or at least the relief that some must have felt. For others, taken captive by wild tribesmen then sold to merchants, the town's infamous slave market would only be the latest stage of their nightmare.
  • It is quite another to conclude from the capacity for evil that forms an intrinsic part of the human condition that all are equally infamous. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Bad hires for unqualified/unethical people in hazy but very expensive positions such as Norris Lozano for the infamous New Markets Tax Credit program It's a small world after all (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • Look out for my good self and other infamous bloggers talking out Christmas in Web User magazine.
  • The versatile goofy-footer is no stranger to the infamous beachbreak home to Puerto Transworld Surf» | Transworld Surf
  • Does it not concern you at all that your Constitutional theory relies on this precedent, which was nullified by the 14th Amendment, and which, furthermore, is the single most infamous decision the Supreme Court has ever issued? The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
  • However, none of the figures that King cites — including the 5.6 million number that he uses to strike fear in xenophobic hearts — are included in the CBO’s infamous health care bill projections. Wonk Room » Rep. Steve King’s Fudged Math Sets Off Alarm: ‘5,600,000 Illegal Aliens’ Covered By ‘Obamacare’
  • They have also courted controversy, particularly over the infamous deep-fat fryer scene.
  • I say and protest with one voice against our further soiling our souls and hands in this infamous jobbery.
  • With a similar obnoxious edge to Beyonce's infamous 'if you like it than you should have put a ring on it' lyric, it will either hit a big red 'repel' button or go straight in as your song of the year. Irish Blogs
  • His intransigence on the issue is probably no surprise to lawmakers who have encountered his infamous temper.
  • Rumours are abound that former contestants will be returning to the house that made them infamous. Times, Sunday Times

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